The days of the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games being hosted in domes is over, NCAA vice president of championships Mark Lewis told ESPN.com. In addition, non-domed venues will also be considered as Final Four sites when the NCAA considers doling out its sites for 2017-2020.

That’s great news to see top-flight basketball in regional semifinal and final games being played in arenas meant to house basketball. But don’t look for the NCAA to ever go away from letting its Final Four be hosted in domes.

The 2013 championship game between Louisville and Michigan set an NCAA title game attendance record at 74,326, with the last five championship tilts featuring over 70,000 fans. Next year’s mark could surpass 80,000, when the Final Four heads to Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

You put Final Fours back into arenas that hold around 20,000, and you throw away millions in revenue, unless you raise ticket prices to compensate.

The last Final Four held inside a typical-sized arena was in 1996, when New Jersey’s Continental Airlines Arena hosted the event. Ever since, it’s been dome city, and it will be that way through at least 2016, with Cowboys Stadium up in '14, Lucas Oil Stadium in Indy in '15, and Houston's Reliant Stadium in '16.

Honestly, when you reach a Final Four, you should get to play on the biggest stage possible. Those are the sport's biggest games, and even if fans in the nosebleeds see but a speck of the players on the court from 30,000 feet, at least they can say they were there.